Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Celebrating Indepedence Day

I just returned from my good friend Mike Marnell's Marnell Family Fourth of July barbecue. Mike lives in Kingston across the street from his mom and dad. They throw a great July fourth barbecue. The Marnell family is huge; I guess there were about 80 people there, and they're all doing great. Mike's dad, Bob, is suffering from heart problems but he is in good spirits. The food is always awesome at the Marnell parties. Mike made the BEST Buffalo wings I ever had. I brought bottle of single malt scotch which Mike and I worked on all day.

Fireworks, family and barbecues are what the Founding Fathers envisioned for the Fourth. Upon recovering from the party and driving home I took a minute to watch my favorite scene from HBO's John Adams television series. I love when Abigail Adams (Laura Linney) reads the Declaration to her children who are recovering from an epidemic--they are America's future and one of them is to become the sixth president:

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If you want to concoct nonsensical lies about my integrity, sign your name to the defamation and you will hear from my attorney. Meanwhile, you are a slug who doesn't get to post on my site. Climb back under your rock.

He was concocting lies about my academic integrity with no basis other than that he disliked my attendance at the Koch Foundation seminar this month and that they are paying a small honorarium to the attendees. If it were a Ford or Rockefeller Foundation seminar he would have congratulated me. The funny part is that he started comparing me to the pro-bailout economists at Columbia described in Inside Job, unaware that I have repeatedly attacked the Wall Street bailout.

That should not surprise you by these people with skulls full of mush. That's the new norm. And if you think the double standard is through the roof now, just wait till till Oct 2112. Those "mites" will be crawling on every piece of meet that sticks its head out of the sand. To get mad at them and ban them posting here is a win for them. They relish on being "ousted". You should rethink not letting him post here. Give these morons as much rope as they can carry and the will definitely use that rope as a necklace. (if you know what I mean). Let'em post. Let the Dems spew their shit in the senate, the house, and let Obama keep talking. Their digging holes so deep, they can't see out of them now. Let the slug post. Don't lower yourself to his level.

Good point and I think you're right, but he was saying things that could actually become a law suit, especially if they're brought up at work. I don't want to be seen condoning the accusations in part because they're untrue but also because he could turn around and say since I was publishing it on my blog I have no complaint if he goes around saying it on campus.

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I have researched and written about employee benefit issues and in my previous life was a corporate benefits administrator. I am currently associate professor of business at Brooklyn College. I hold a Ph.D. from the Columbia University Graduate School of Business, an MBA from UCLA and an AB from Sarah Lawrence College. I am working on a project involving public policy. I blog on academic and political topics.